Quantum technologies in the telecommunications industry

Martín, Vicente; Brito, Juan P.; Escribano, Carmen López; Menchetti, Marco; White, Catherine; Lord, Andrew; Wissel, Felix; Gunkel, Matthias; Gavignet, Paulette; Genay, N.; Moult, Olivier Le; Abellán, Carlos; Manzalini, Antonio; Pastor-Perales, A.; López, Vı́ctor; López, Diego

doi:10.1140/epjqt/s40507-021-00108-9

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“…Today, quantum technologies are attracting increasing interests, efforts and investments also from Industry [103]. In fact, research and innovation in the field of quantum computing and communications are finally finding practical applications out of the laboratories.…”

Section: Industrial Perspective and Standardizationmentioning

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Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey

Illiano,

Caleffi,

Manzalini

et al. 2022

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Classical Internet evolved exceptionally during the last five decades, from a network comprising a few static nodes in the early days to a leviathan interconnecting billions of devices. This has been possible by the separation of concern principle, for which the network functionalities are organized as a stack of layers, each providing some communication functionalities through specific network protocols. In this survey, we aim at highlighting the impossibility of adapting the classical Internet protocol stack to the Quantum Internet, due to the marvels of quantum mechanics. Indeed, the design of the Quantum Internet requires a major paradigm shift of the whole protocol stack for harnessing the peculiarities of quantum entanglement and quantum information. In this context, we first overview the relevant literature about Quantum Internet protocol stack. Then, stemming from this, we sheds the light on the open problems and required efforts toward the design of an effective and complete Quantum Internet protocol stack. To the best of authors' knowledge, a survey of this type is the first of its own. What emerges from this analysis is that the Quantum Internet, though still in its infancy, is a disruptive technology whose design requires an inter-disciplinary effort at the border between quantum physics, computer and telecommunications engineering.This work was partially supported by project xxx. Jessica Illiano acknowledges support from TIM S.p.A. through the PhD scholarship.

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Section: Industrial Perspective and Standardizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey

Illiano,

Caleffi,

Manzalini

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Although there are several different approaches to defining the structure of the QKD node and thus defining the organi-zation of the KMS entity, it is important to highlight the approach being developed within the EU H2020 OPENQKD 1 project [9].…”

Section: Qkd Architecturementioning

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Tackling Denial of Service Attacks on Key Management in Software-Defined Quantum Key Distribution Networks

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A QKD network provides an additional security layer for IT-secure cryptographic key distribution that is added to existing conventional networks. Thus, QKD network components must be resilient to security challenges from conventional network environments. This paper provided solutions for realizing a Key Management System to avoid DoS attacks, and our solution allows applications to function securely in environments with a reduced amount of keys. In addition, we have provided approaches for allocating and managing QKD resources to avoid malicious key reservations. Simulation experiments verified the proposed solutions.

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“…Furthermore, there are many studies focusing on applications of QT and its subfields, such as industry [18] and commercial [19] applications of quantum computing, quantum computing for finance [20,21], chemistry [22], and so on. Similarly, there are many studies on sectoral applications of QT like for space [23], telecommunications [24], and military [25]. However, a study on the emerging landscape of the quantum start-up ecosystem has been missing in the literature.…”

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The landscape of the quantum start-up ecosystem

Seskir¹,

Ramis

Aydınoğlu

2022

EPJ Quantum Technol.

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The second quantum revolution has been producing groundbreaking scientific and technological outputs since the early 2000s; however, the scientific literature on the impact of this revolution on the industry, specifically on start-ups, is limited. In this paper, we present a landscaping study with a gathered dataset of 441 companies from 42 countries that we identify as quantum start-ups, meaning that they mainly focus on quantum technologies (QT) as their primary priority business. We answer the following questions: (1) What are the temporal and geographical distributions of the quantum start-ups? (2) How can we categorize them, and how are these categories populated? (3) Are there any patterns that we can derive from empirical data on trends? We found that more than 92% of these companies have been founded within the last 10 years, and more than 50% of them are located in the US, the UK, and Canada. We categorized the QT start-ups into six fields: (i) complementary technologies, (ii) quantum computing (hardware), (iii) quantum computing (software/application/simulation), (iv) quantum cryptography/communication, (v) quantum sensing and metrology, and (vi) supporting companies, and analyzed the population of each field both for countries, and temporally. Finally, we argue that low levels of quantum start-up activity in a country might be an indicator of a national initiative to be adopted afterwards, which later sees both an increase in the number of start-ups, and a diversification of activity in different QT fields.

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Quantum technologies in the telecommunications industry

Cited by 45 publications

References 78 publications

Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey

Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey

Tackling Denial of Service Attacks on Key Management in Software-Defined Quantum Key Distribution Networks

The landscape of the quantum start-up ecosystem

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